Denys Johnson-Davies (1922–2017)
Auteur de The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction
A propos de l'auteur
Denys Johnson-Davies was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on June 21, 1922. He received a degree in Arabic from St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. During World War II, he joined the Arabic section of the BBC. After the war, he moved to Cairo and taught translation at the British afficher plus Institute. He translated more than 30 Arabic novels, short-story collections, and anthologies including Modern Arabic Short Stories, The Time and the Place and Other Stories, The Journey of Ibn Fattouma, Arabian Nights and Days, Echoes of an Autobiography, Under the Naked Sky: Short Stories from the Arab World, and Homecoming: 60 Years of Egyptian Short Stories. He also wrote books for children, a memoir entitled Memories in Translation: A Life Between the Lines of Arabic Literature, and a collection of his own writing entitled Fate of a Prisoner and Other Stories. He died on May 22, 2017 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Denys Johnson-Davies
Under the Naked Sky: Short Stories from the Arab World (2000) — Directeur de publication — 27 exemplaires
Al-Ghazali on the Manners Relating to Eating: Book XI of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ghazali Series) (2000) — Translator, Commentator — 24 exemplaires
In a Fertile Desert: Modern Writing from the United Arab Emirates (2000) — Directeur de publication; Traducteur — 16 exemplaires
The Essential Yusuf Idris: Masterpieces of the Egyptian Short Story (2009) — Directeur de publication — 10 exemplaires
Homecoming: Sixty Years of Egyptian Short Stories (Modern Arabic Literature) (2012) — Directeur de publication; Traducteur — 9 exemplaires
The Essential Naguib Mahfouz: Novels, Short Stories, Autobiography (Modern Arabic Literature) (2011) 6 exemplaires
Saladin (A Page From Arab History) 3 exemplaires
Amr of Egypt (A Page From Arab History) 2 exemplaires
The World's Greatest Traveler Ibn Battouta 2 exemplaires
ذئب الصحراء والقط الأسد 1 exemplaire
An-Nawawi´s Hadith 1 exemplaire
Forty Hadith Qudsi 1 exemplaire
ذئب الصحراء وملكة القراصنة 1 exemplaire
ذئب الصحراء واللؤلؤة السوداء 1 exemplaire
ذئب الصحراء والمتسولون العميان 1 exemplaire
What Happened to Zeeko 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories (1983) — Traducteur, quelques éditions; Introduction, quelques éditions — 193 exemplaires
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- Date de naissance
- 1922-06-21
- Date de décès
- 2017-05-22
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Canada
- Lieu de naissance
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Lieux de résidence
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Marrakesh, Morocco
Cairo, Egypt
London, England, UK
Sudan
Uganda (tout afficher 7)
Kenya - Études
- Cambridge University
- Professions
- author
translator - Relations
- Crociani, Paola (wife)
- Courte biographie
- Denys Johnson-Davies was an author and one of the pre-eminent translators of Arabic fiction into English, including many of the Nobel-Prize-winning author Naguib Mahfouz. Born in Canada, Johnson-Davies studied in London and Cambridge before moving to Cairo.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 62
- Aussi par
- 6
- Membres
- 518
- Popularité
- #47,945
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 27
- ISBN
- 90
- Langues
- 1